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Your letters: Clean bathrooms a must

- Carole L. Bishop, Fairfield

Posted:
06/20/2014 09:21:20 AM EDT

Have a pet peeve? Something that drives you right up the wall.

I would like to address bathroom responsibility and courtesy.

We are all made aware that germs are not good for us. There are many products out there that are to help us keep germ free. Any business is responsible to keep their bathroom clean - that is good customer service and treating others like you’d like to be treated.

Toilet and sink should be spotless, paper towels stocked, floor cleaned not sticky like one I visited in a restaurant.

The courtesy is the one using the bathroom.

They should flush the toilet, make sure the toilet paper is not left touching the floor, water is not running, paper towels should not be thrown all over, there’s a container for that.

On good authority, I have heard of a man who doesn’t want to touch the door knob so he uses a tissue then proceeds to throw the tissue on the floor.

The company moved the waste can closer to the door but he continued his activity so they returned the waste can to the original position. The man was not being courteous of others using the bathroom.

I believe there should be paper toilet seat covers especially for our little children that don’t quite fit the toilet seat. I was amazed the Baltimore airport had one in each stall.

Toilet doors, I appreciate those that pull out rather than go in - hard fit.

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When I enter a restaurant, grocery store or drugstore and it isn’t clean where it absolutely should, up the wall I go. I reported a drugstore to the board of health but they don’t keep a check on drugstores.

When I am blessed to use a clean bathroom, I seek out someone to thank them. When the responsible party doesn’t clean the whole toilet to include the base, uck.

How often should a bathroom be inspected? I would say every two hours.